Meinke Kennel Uses Tenant-Days as Its Measure of Activity; an Animal

question 54

Multiple Choice

Meinke Kennel uses tenant-days as its measure of activity; an animal housed in the kennel for one day is counted as one tenant-day. During April, the kennel budgeted for 3,700 tenant-days, but its actual level of activity was 3,680 tenant-days. The kennel has provided the following data concerning the formulas used in its budgeting and its actual results for April:Data used in budgeting: Actual results for April:
The activity variance for wages and salaries in April would be closest to:

• A) $128 U
• B) $342 F
• C) $128 F
• D) $342 U

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Definitions:

Conditional Probability

The estimated probability of an event's occurrence when it is already known that another event has preceded it.

Thomas Bayes

An 18th-century British statistician and clergyman known for formulating the Bayes' Theorem, which describes the probability of an event based on prior knowledge.

Likelihood Probabilities

Quantifies the chance of a particular set of outcomes under specific model parameters, often used in statistical inference.

Prior Probabilities

The probabilities assigned to outcomes based on prior knowledge before any new evidence is considered.